Homer: "Reverse Psychology? Oh that sounds too complicated."
Homer's Brain: "Fine. DON'T use reverse psychology."
Homer: "OK I WILL!!"

Photos will automatically categorize pictures by person, place, thing, etc... I never bother making folders or albums because I can just search by date or place or "black cat" or whatever. If the system can't figure it out on its own you can easily multi-select a bunch of pictures and add keywords, which can then be searched. If you really don't want to see the whole unfiltered camera roll ever you can just stay away from the library entry. If you are in "My Albums", for instance, and quit the app, when you come back you'll still be there.

I guess I don't really understand what you're looking for.

My daughter wrote a report on video game development when she was in 5th or 6th grade. Through some connections we got an invite to go to Double Fine studios and have a sit down with Tim Schaefer. He is exactly what you would hope. Nicest guy in the world, absolutely loves what he does and loves talking about it. He gave my daughter a tour of the place, showed her how they thought about designing games, talked her ear off for more than an hour, gave her some keepsakes (design documents from some games they had shipped).

For Psychonauts 1, to really get inside the characters heads, they created their own fake internal Facebook-type site and play acted how all the characters would interact on social media.

Unfortunately the communities that I'm interested in didn't really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I've dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I'm interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it's hard to get stuck in when the discussions I'm interested in aren't really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.

Cyberpunk 2077. I waited a year for the bugs to be sorted out, got it for half price, and it was just a very blah game. The Ascent is a way better game both in terms of being cyberpunk-y and also just being a fun game.

Just keep it on Catalina and use that until it dies. I gave my dad a 2011 MacBook Air a while ago and that hasn't been updated since High Sierra. It still works fine.

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of "put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen...." Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

When I worked at Beats Music the office Wi-Fi was “Bits by Dre”.

I'm as deep in the ecosystem as you can be. I have multiple everything: phone, iPad, Watch, TV, HomePod, many Macs (I'm an Apple developer, it's all business-related!). Subscribe to Apple One Premier for the family. Apple Pay, Apple Card, etc., etc... I'll be first in line for Vision Pro next year.

Basically, if there's an Apple version of something, I will use it over the competition, regardless of any other consideration.

I've been a tech nerd for 40+ years, and honestly, I love it. I built my own PCs for years. I can program assembly language if need be. I've got a Linux box in the closet acting as my home server. It used to do a lot of the internet router stuff, but I moved that to an Airport Extreme many years ago.

I just don't want to mess around with that stuff anymore. For the most part, "it just works" is true. Yes, there are bugs and glitches and frustrating limitations, but show me a hardware/software system that doesn't have them.

Ben Eater. He’s been explaining the low level details of how computers work. Literally building a functioning computer from nothing but a cpu and a breadboard. Incredibly good explanations.

I love it. Clean, minimal, gets out of the way, does what I want. With the iCloud keychain password management, 2FA management, auto-fill-then-delete codes from message/email (iOS 17/macOS Sonoma), it's a real time-saver.

If you're on a laptop for any amount of time during the day the battery life is unbeatable.

No. I've got a bunch of friends who are just as techy and nerdy as I am, and they won't move. "Yeah, Reddit sucks, but I'm not going to change."

They didn't go to Mastodon either, just Bluesky, which infuriates me, as it's just another walled garden.